There is a growing buzz around the idea to make freshmen students ineligible to play football and men’s basketball, and that buzz stems from recent reports that several conferences – including the Big Ten – want to discuss the idea.

Who are some of the top true freshmen in the Big Ten we should expect to see on the field in 2015? BTN.com web editor Sean Merriman takes a look at one “instant impact” commit from every Big Ten school.

If you can believe it, Duke already has started spring football practice in preparation for the 2015 college football season. The Big Ten won’t break out the pads until March. When it does, the work will begin on replacing some star players.

In Thursday morning’s roundup of Big Ten stories from beat writers, we collected a number of interesting “day after Signing Day” links, including one that says Ohio State’s offensive coordinator is certain Braxton Miller will return. Also, who flipped? And which two schools had surprisingly good days? All that and more in this post.